{"id":35629,"date":"2018-09-01T14:51:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35629"},"modified":"2018-09-01T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:51:56","slug":"english-what-does-imposture-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-imposture-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what does imposture mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, neat surprises are common. The tutor shares the find <em>imposture<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>Back in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/impostor-or-imposter\/\">post from Aug 30<\/a> I mention the words <em>imposter<\/em> and <em>impostor<\/em>. Today I bring up the related noun, <em>imposture<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;margin-bottom:16px;white-space:pre-wrap\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">imposture (noun):<\/span><br \/>\nwhat an imposter does. <em>Imposture<\/em> means, generally, deception. In particular, it points to the pretense that an imposter would carry out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C (editor). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, neat surprises are common. The tutor shares the find imposture. Back in my post from Aug 30 I mention the words imposter and impostor. Today I bring up the related noun, imposture. imposture (noun): what an imposter does. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-imposture-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what does imposture mean?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35632,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35629\/revisions\/35632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}